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  2. 首

くび

首

N4

neck

kubi

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JLPT
N4
Frequency
#2,301

Meanings

  1. 1
    necknoun
  2. 2
    headnoun
  3. 3
    dismissal (from a job); firing; sackingnoun

JMdict 1592270

In a sentence

首(くび)neckが痛いhurts

My neck hurts

How it works

A bare, casual statement of a feeling. が (subject) marks 首(くび) (neck) as the thing that hurts, and the adjective 痛い(いたい) (hurts) acts as the whole predicate — Japanese needs no "is". For body aches Japanese says "the neck hurts" with が (subject), rather than "I hurt my neck".

Written with

  • 首neck9 strokes

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